Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (May 30, 2009) -- Team USA
Scholarship drivers have continued to display their skills this week,
with Josef Newgarden earning an emotional victory this afternoon at
Rockingham in England and Joey Hand emerging narrowly ahead of fellow
former Team USA Scholarship winner Andy Lally after a thrilling Koni
Challenge Grand Sports race last Monday at Lime Rock Park in rural
Connecticut.

The month of May has been a roller-coaster ride for 18-year-old
Newgarden. The 2008 Team USA Scholarship winner returned to his home in
Tennessee for a brief break earlier in the month, then learned the
shattering news that his UK Formula Ford team owner Joe Tandy had died in
a road accident. Tandy was just 26 years old. The pair had forged a close
bond since joining forces this year.

Newgarden traveled back to his UK base in Oxford this week with a heavy
heart, and was intent on doing his level best to honor Tandy's
memory when the MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain reconvened
this weekend at the Rockingham road course which is situated close to Joe
Tandy Racing's base in Bedford.

He did just that. After qualifying second fastest, Newgarden moved his
No. 21 JTR/Robo-Pong Mygale SJ09 into the lead at the start. The gifted
young American lost his advantage moments before a full-course caution
but promptly regained the lead at the restart and then pulled away to
score his second Formula Ford victory of the season.

"This win was for Joe," declared Newgarden. "It was a very emotional time
for the whole team. First of all, it was nice to get back and be with
everyone because it's a big family team. We've still got a
long way to go this weekend, with two more races tomorrow, but this was
definitely a very positive day."

Earlier in the week at Lime Rock Park, Hand and Lally, who were awarded
Team USA Scholarships in 2000 and 1999 respectively, put on quite a show
during Round Five of the Grand-Am Koni Challenge Grand Sports division.

"Andy Lally is a professional and you have to pull every trick in the
book to get by him," noted Hand, who took the lead at Big Bend with 22
minutes remaining before taking the checkered flag to win aboard the No.
97 Turner Motorsports BMW M3 he shared with veteran Chris Gleason.

"Joey was giving me a couple nudges to remind me he was back there," said
Lally after finishing second in the No. 41 TRG/Magnus Racing Porsche GT3
which was started by co-driver John Potter. "I would have done the same
thing, only harder! I've had a bunch of great races with Joey in
the past, and this is another that will go down in the history books."